Citation

Dharmadhikari N, Lee ES. Cogent Eng. 2015; 2(1): e1068968.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis)

DOI

10.1080/23311916.2015.1068968

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This research studies the accessibility of grocery stores to university students using the public transportation system, drawing from a case study of Fargo, North Dakota. Taking into consideration the combined travel time components of walking, riding, and waiting, this study measures two types of accessibilities: accessibility to reach a particular place and accessibility to reach the bus stop to ride the public transit system. These two accessibilities are interdependent and cannot perform without each other. A new method to calculate the average accessibility measure for the transit routes is proposed. A step-wise case study analysis indicates that one route provides accessibility to a grocery store in eight minutes. This also suggests that the North Dakota State University area has moderate accessibility to grocery stores.

Language: en